Published March 2018 | Version v1
Journal article

Differential expansion for link polynomials

  • 1. Chern Institute of Mathematics and LPMC, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071 (China)
  • 2. School of Math & Physics, Ningde Normal University, Ningde 352100 (China)
  • 3. Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Moscow 127994 (Russian Federation)
  • 4. ITEP, Moscow 117218 (Russian Federation)
  • 5. Lebedev Physics Institute, Moscow 119991 (Russian Federation)
  • 6. Laboratory of Quantum Topology, Chelyabinsk State University, Chelyabinsk 454001 (Russian Federation)

Description

The differential expansion is one of the key structures reflecting group theory properties of colored knot polynomials, which also becomes an important tool for evaluation of non-trivial Racah matrices. This makes highly desirable its extension from knots to links, which, however, requires knowledge of the 6j-symbols, at least, for the simplest triples of non-coincident representations. Based on the recent achievements in this direction, we conjecture a shape of the differential expansion for symmetrically-colored links and provide a set of examples. Within this study, we use a special framing that is an unusual extension of the topological framing from knots to links. In the particular cases of Whitehead and Borromean rings links, the differential expansions are different from the previously discovered.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.01.026

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2018.01.026;
arXiv
arXiv:1709.09228v1;
PII
S0370269318300340;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
778
Journal Page Range
p. 197-206
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
51017297
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; S97: MATHEMATICAL METHODS AND COMPUTING;
Descriptors DEI
EVALUATION; EXPANSION; GROUP THEORY; MATRICES; RACAH COEFFICIENTS; RINGS
Descriptors DEC
MATHEMATICS

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